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Early Man

Synopsis

Time to test their metal

Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the menace of a mysterious and mighty enemy, on the turf of an ancient and sacred sport.

god i lose my shit every time i see an aardman bunny!!!! this studio makes the cutest claymation bunnies and they KNOW it. glad to see a bunny in this flick — aardman’s really giving the people what we want (more bunnies)

I’m going to be honest, I have absolutely no idea why people are giving this low ratings. I loved it so much. I can’t think of many reasons why I loved it so much, I mean the storyline is extremely basic and predictable. BUT ITS SO MUCH FUN. I’m thinking about it now and it was just ... perfect. The humour is amazing, it’s quite obviously made for kids but I laughed out loud over and over again. Aardman animation is legendary, and I will not accept people claiming that it’s “uninspired” as I read earlier. I grew up with Aardman movies and I don’t know as I only loved this for sentimental reasons. At the end of the day, whatever the reason, I loved it very very much.

There’s a joke in this where a Bronze Age man is seeing sliced bread for the first time and he says “Sliced bread? That’s the best thing since....well......ever!” because of the phrase “the best thing since sliced bread” and let me tell you I laughed far, far too much at that stupid joke.

Ever have the experience where you really like a creator and want to root for everything they do, but you just can't? This is that. This is one of those children's movies that feels completely harmless, but bland as tapioca, and so familiar that it was like I'd watched it already. The plot involves a group of cavemen ousted from their home valley by a preposterously advanced group who represent the Bronze Age, but are more like a medieval society. Plus they have soccer. So the cavemen challenge them to a soccer match for the valley. But… they've never played before! They're an underdog team with heart and no skills! You know the drill. Also, there's a pig that acts like a dog for no clear reason, especially since it's smarter than the people. I miss the much weirder and more personal Aardman Animation projects circa "The Wrong Trousers."

In 20 years this'll be REVERED and those who put it down will be like "ahh, yes loved da film, sooo underrated" and I will rise from my crypt and brandish their receipts of wrong-doing against this beauteous film and the adorableness that is Hognob.

The most unexpected football film of all time, I had literally no idea this was about the (not so) beautiful game before I originally went to see it at the cinema. That being said, Aardman taking the dawn of man and making it an alternate history where football was the first sport is about as British as it gets. The jokes are solid family pleasers, the animation is typically expressive, and the film is just plain good, which is the very least an Aardman animation will guarantee. I’d take this over anything Illumination have made, any day of the week.

Finishing off the Aadrman marathon (at least until I can find the Wallace and Gromit shorts), we got the unfortunate box office bomb, Early Man. While it's still wildly creative, funny, and oozing with charm, this one doesn't grab me as much as the others with a honestly pretty predictable story, and a couple cliche's I wasn't a fan of (hey, at least the poopy trope wasn't in this, am I right?). But it sure as heck didn't deserve to bomb like it did (here in the USA, this came out the same weekend as Black Panther. Just goes to show how little Lionsgate cares about Aadrman, and how much they love to shove unwanted franchise's down our throats, *cough* Norm of the North *cough*).

Not the best the studio has done, but because it is by them, it doesn't disappoint. The story is a bit predictable but I appreciate that it would even go that route. It looks extremely well and the animation is phenomenal. Im sure if I watched this when I was younger that duck would have given me nightmares.

Out of all the claymation movies I’ve seen this is probably the most disappointing, it’s not bad by any means but I can’t stop feeling like it could be better. The plot is predictable but still not bad.

This movie reminds me of Missing Link because both movies were made by great stop motion animation studios that have made amazing movies in the past, yet made this one extremely mediocre. The problem with Early Man is that it pretty much makes the exact jokes and story beats you’ve come to expect with these kinds of movies. I’ll admit to laughing quite a few times (there’s a joke where the main villain threatens the football team that if they don’t win they’ll be suspended for the season and it cuts to a skeleton in a jersey hanging off of a pole and I died laughing). And the animation was great too. I mean, it’s Aardman, they’ve always had great…